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Install and uninstall plugins

Install and uninstall plugins - Jenkins Tutorial

From the course: Learning Jenkins

Install and uninstall plugins

- [Instructor] As you find more ways to use Jenkins, you might need to add or remove functionality by installing or uninstalling plugins. Let's take a look at that process. From the dashboard, click Manage Jenkins, Manage Plugins. If you click the Available tab, you'll see a long list of the plugins that are available to be installed. Now you can browse this list by scrolling down the page, but it'll take some time to find what you're looking for. To speed things up, you can click the Name header to sort the plugins by name. And clicking again, reverses the sort order. Sorting is great, but the most useful way to find a specific plugin is to use the Search menu. For example, there's a plugin that adds templates we can use for emails sent from the Jenkins server. Let's start by looking for plugins with the key word email. As I type, the list of available plugins is shortened to just those that have email in their name or…

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